The International Photography Festival known as "Les Rencontres d'Arles" was created by Lucien Clergue, Jean-Maurice Rouquette and Michel Tournier in 1970. More than fifty years later this festival is definitively, the most important event around photography in the whole world.
Usually organized around more than 50 events installed in various exceptional patrimonial places of Arles, Les Rencontres d’Arles (in English the Meetings of Arles), each summer in July, intend to contribute to transmit the world photographic inheritance and also want to be the crucible of contemporary creation by the discovery of young talented photographers.
Thanks to a demanding programming (by Christoph Wiesner and earlier by Sam Stourdzé and François Hébel ) and a challenging public, the Rencontres d’Arles explore the current stakes of photography and attest capacity of this medium and importance of the figure of the photographer, witness of the world which surrounds it.
How to visit the photo festival: Les Rencontresd d'Arles?
The main event is during the first week of exhibition with official opening of all of the events, in the city and in the Parc des Ateliers. During this first week the day end by a night screening in the Roman Theater..
After the first week you can visit during 4 months the most important exhibitions in the city and in LUMA and the Parc des Ateliers.
Les Rencontres d'Arles
34 rue du docteur Fanton 13200 Arles
Tél. : +33 (0)4 90 96 76 06
info@rencontres-arles.com
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